DAYTONA purchased looking for history PLEASE HELP.

[mybluebird]

 I have recently purchased this Daytona. I am looking for any help I can get with information of it's past history, pictures or owners. The Vin number is XX29L9B409058.  It is a numbers matching 62,000 original mile car. I am in the process of correcting a few small things that have been changed on the car over the years. The things that people do .....  I do have a rough outline of the cars passed, being a show car in the 80s. It was at the world of wheels show and has over the years won many awards. It was once painted black cherry. Without posting my entire knowledge of the cars history, I am asking please if you have any photos or information on it to help me further document the car I would be very grateful. I have had this account for a while but I am still what I consider to be new on this forum so please bear with me, I am not great with electronics.  I have attached a photo of it to the best of my knowledge, I hope it will show up on my post.

[mybluebird]

 I have tried numerous times to post a couple pictures but it says it was unable to save the photo because its possibly too big for the server to allow and to consult someone about it. I have no idea what it means. Sorry guys if anyone can help I will gladly try to post pictures of the car.

[70 sublime]

The picture needs to be smaller than 200kb
And if you have tried to post it you will need to change the name also as it will tell you it is already been posted and will not let you post the same picture twice

[mybluebird]

 How do I make the picture smaller? All I did was take a picture of it with my iPhone. I am horrible with electronics.

[XH29N0G]

How do I make the picture smaller? All I did was take a picture of it with my iPhone. I am horrible with electronics.

Some programs allow you to open the picture, resize and then 'save as'.  I have seen several suggestions on here at different times.  One that seems to work for windows machines is to open the picture, and then to find an app called 'snipping tool' (I do this by typing 'snipping tool' in the taskbar).  Then I use this program to make a new snip of the image that I save as a new file name.  I check the file to make sure it is less than 200 kb and make sure the filename is unique.  The filename has to be unique to work on this site, so you will have to come up with that too.

[nascarxx29]

409058 belive was donna schill car wisconsin custom painted black cherry by butch brinsa

[nascarxx29]

http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,51033.0.html

[mybluebird]

 Well I do very much appreciate your knowledge on how to resize a photo but it sounds entirely too labor intensive electronically for me to even begin to want to do so. I don't use my computer anymore because it is slower than a one armed swimmer so all I have now are these fancy Apple phones and iPads so I guess I am flat out of luck.....

[mybluebird]

http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,51033.0.html

Thank you very much for the pictures and the previous comments on posts. It no longer has the eight track in it someone put a AM FM in it. Guess I need to track down a eight track now.

[nascarxx29]

http://s37.photobucket.com/user/75414/media/Mobile%20Uploads/1004704_10200805346215265_680975500_n_zpspjiedebe.jpg.html

[Aero426]

The car came up from Florida in the 1978-79 time period.   That is when Donna bought it.  I think it was about $3900 at that time.    Very nice car, but the orange paint was sort of dull.   It had a black stripe on it.     She did the full custom treatment on the car with Butch Brinza.   If you are not familiar with him, he got the deal to paint one of the Rapid Transit auto show cars for Chrysler.  I believe he had worked with or knew Von Dutch in the early days of his career.    His work was VERY expensive ad he is a real artist.    How it usually worked was you dropped the car off to him and pretty just much turned him loose.    I know that Donna wanted it black cherry.    But I am sure the semi-transparent rear stripe treatment was all Butch's idea.  

Donna is still around and local to me.   Haven't spoken to her in about ten years.    Butch, I believe is in Arizona.  

Not the best photo, but this is from Donna's driveway.   You can see the black wing in the background.    The Firebird was a '74 455SD 4-speed car.    

[PettyMower]

Somewhere I have (2) other pics of this car....not mine, found on the web:

[Arnie Cunningham]

On the subject of re-sizing photos, if you have them on your ipad, try using a screen capture when the photo is displayed on the screen, this should give you a reasonably sized photo as it will be based on the resolution of your screen not on the size of the original photo.  Save the screen shot with a different name and try uploading that.

[mybluebird]

http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,51033.0.html

Thank you very much for the pictures and the previous comments on posts. It no longer has the eight track in it someone put a AM FM in it. I wish it was a 8 track car..

[mybluebird]

Somewhere I have (2) other pics of this car....not mine, found on the web:

this picture and the other black cherry picture of it at a car show shot from the drivers side are the only two pictures I have ever seen of the car in the black cherry at least on the Internet. I would love to see much more detailed shots. I do have a few very poor copies of pictures of the engine compartment  with its chromed out components and a few other custom touches at the time but sure wish I had more. Thank you guys so much for the help.

[A383Wing]

if it's the same car that I saw in 1999 at Talladega, I might have some pics also...I'll look

[mybluebird]

The car came up from Florida in the 1978-79 time period.   That is when Donna bought it.  I think it was about $3900 at that time.    Very nice car, but the orange paint was sort of dull.   It had a black stripe on it.     She did the full custom treatment on the car with Butch Brinza.   If you are not familiar with him, he got the deal to paint one of the Rapid Transit auto show cars for Chrysler.  I believe he had worked with or knew Von Dutch in the early days of his career.    His work was VERY expensive ad he is a real artist.    How it usually worked was you dropped the car off to him and pretty just much turned him loose.    I know that Donna wanted it black cherry.    But I am sure the semi-transparent rear stripe treatment was all Butch's idea.  

Donna is still around and local to me.   Haven't spoken to her in about ten years.    Butch, I believe is in Arizona.  

Not the best photo, but this is from Donna's driveway.   You can see the black wing in the background.    The Firebird was a '74 455SD 4-speed car.    

Now that is a photo I have never seen of the car in Donna's driveway with the bird. Very neat picture. Was the bird also Donna's car? Does anyone have any way to contact Donna for me and give her my information or is there anyway I can personally contact her? I would love to speak with her and ask her a few questions. It would be nice to know at least the original owners name just to complete the name history of the car. It appears that I am the 9th owner. Now I must ask because I had wondered about this. Does anyone know if the car is originally a black stripe car? This photo really makes me lean towards being a black stripe car.

[mybluebird]

 This is the crappy pixelated picture this forum would let me post.

[nascarxx29]

Orig orange black stripe.there is a daytona stripe color on shiplist that may have results

[birdsandbees]

Size you picture at 850 wide and save to a quality percentage that gets you below 200KB. PITA, but we're not paying the bills! 

[PettyMower]

Somewhere I have (2) other pics of this car....not mine, found on the web:

this picture and the other black cherry picture of it at a car show shot from the drivers side are the only two pictures I have ever seen of the car in the black cherry at least on the Internet. I would love to see much more detailed shots. I do have a few very poor copies of pictures of the engine compartment  with its chromed out components and a few other custom touches at the time but sure wish I had more. Thank you guys so much for the help.

The 2 other pics I've seen from this show, are front and rear shots of both Daytona's....the black one and the other...maybe Yellow....I can't remember. I'll look some more. I know I've seen them, and I'm pretty sure I saved copies.

[held1823]

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[RCCDrew]

Love the custom paint!!   

[A383Wing]

Pretty sure that's the same car I saw in '99...still trying to find the pictures I took

[mybluebird]

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The under the hood shots of the black cherry at the car show is not one I have seen. Thank you very much. I never knew it was done in black without the six pack. The car had a six pack in the other picture I have of it when it was black.